abortion {lca}R Documentation

Abortion Attitude Data

Description

McCutcheon's data on abortion attitudes from 1972-88, showing whether respondents approved of abortions under circumstances of pregnancy endangering the mother's health, rape, mother's poverty and mother being single.

Usage

data(abortion)

Format

A data frame with 16 levels tabulated over 5 different years. "1" = "Positive attitude", and "2" = "Negative attitude".

A
Attitude under circumstances of mother's health endangered.
B
Attitude if pregnancy caused by rape.
C
Attitude if woman unable to financially support child.
D
Attitude if woman is single.
1972
Reponse frequencies for 1972.
1976
Reponse frequencies for 1976.
1980
Reponse frequencies for 1980.
1984
Reponse frequencies for 1984.
1988
Reponse frequencies for 1988.

References

McCutcheon, A.L. (1996) - Multiple Group Association Models with Latent Variables: An Analysis of Secular Trends in Abortion Attitudes, 1972-1988, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 26 (1996), pp. 79-111

Examples

data(abortion)
## maybe str(abortion) ; plot(abortion) ...

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